HIGHER PLANE
MAN'S ONWARD PROGRESS
"In his short past, man has been moving toward a higher intellectual, spiritual, and moral standard. The story of the past suggests that that movement will continue, and that the future promises development and growing perfection of social life and the expansion of the social idea to include people and nations as well as individuals. No forecast can be made of the future of man in the distant millions of years to which life upon the earth can look forward. But it is scarcely likely that insurgence of life, which in the past has continually branched out in new and unpredictable directions, will be limited for all time to relatively trifling gains in social arrangements amongst humanity or In the intellectual or moral development of the individual. In the far distant future, reckoned in its millions of years, we must look to greater changes than we can possibly foresee."! —Professor James Riti ~bie, in an address to the EdinI ' ugh Geological Society.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 145, 22 August 1941, Page 5
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167HIGHER PLANE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 145, 22 August 1941, Page 5
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